We have lived in our home for almost 40 years and
every spring since that first spring,
I am excited to see beautiful colors popping open in our yard.
I have added bulbs and plants and bushes over the years,
but I am always grateful to the gardener who came before.
There are many double jonquils, some in shades of yellow
and orange and some that are yellow with white.
Azaleas in pink, white and lavender
as well as iris of deep purple.
Also planted by the one who came before are wood hyacinths.
Pretty in shades of blues and white and smelling so sweet.
Now there are hundreds of these as they have multiplied
over the past 4 decades.
I do know that the people who we purchased the house
from were not the gardeners...
they didn't even take care of the house. But there were two other
owners of the house before them. I am not sure who it was that liked
to play in the "dirt" but I am very thankful for
his/her garden efforts that are still going strong over forty years later.
We've had a heat wave here in Maryland. A week or so of 90 degree temps, but the humidity was low, which made it bearable. Then we had several days of early spring like weather. Beautiful clear, blue sky days, when it was actually chilly in the morning and was great porch sitting weather in the afternoons. Today, the humidity is up. The temperature is suppose to hit the mid to upper 90's and Wednesday it should be over 100. It has been a challenge to keep the gardens watered. I'm sitting on my porch, writing this post, and every so often I move the sprinkler, which is set very low, to another part of the garden to soak the soil. The hydrangeas are already fading. They usually don't look like this to the end of August. But having the sprinkler on is attracting even more birds than I usually see...they appear to be having a wonderful time in the water. 
I painted several functional, vintage look, rusty watering cans and have finally listed 2 of them on The Country Workshop website. 